BANGKOK - Doctors found around 50 maggots in the ears of an 84-year-old Thai man after he went to hospital complaining of an itch.
Wednesday's Nation newspaper said Anan Temtan, who lives in the tsunami-hit southern resort island of Phuket, had used cotton buds to relieve the itching, but had scratched so hard his eardrums ruptured and started bleeding.
"We believe flies might have gone inside his ears to lay eggs, which hatched into larvae and caused the itching," said Somsak Nonthasri, the doctor who treated him.
Somsak, who used tweezers and a small suction device to remove the maggots, said Anan would be kept in for observation for a while to make sure no more eggs hatched.
FYI: pic is not related to this particluar story... but... EWW!
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Better to be a maggot under the skin than one in a pile of shit.
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Actually, this pic looks like it might be medical. There has been a huge number of cases reported where both maggots and leeches have been used to treat medical problems. I don't recall the specifics for maggots, but I think leeches are used to treat problems with blood clots among other things.
But, things like the Thai man, that's a lot more common in countries that are less developed than we are here in the States.
I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be an ass. Maggots are baby flies that hatch from eggs laid in meat. They hatch and then feed off of the meat in which they've been laid.
They've been used in medicine because when you introduce them into an infected area, they eat the infected meat and allow the wound to be sterilized and heal properly.
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Apr 27th, 2005 07:24 AM
"got it off another board" I bet that's you and your pet maggots.
may i know latin name of them? 
i wasn't kidding 
